Crossword clues for oversell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oversell \O`ver*sell`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Oversold; p. pr. & vb. n. Overselling. ]
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To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price.
One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy.
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To sell beyond means of delivery. [Brokers' Cant]
Oversold market (Brokers' Cant), a market in which stocks or commodities have been sold ``short'' to such an extent that it is difficult to obtain them for delivery.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To agree to sell more of something than one can supply. 2 (context transitive English) To be too eager in attempting to sell something. 3 (context transitive English) To praise something to excess. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in sale price.
Usage examples of "oversell".
Here I am, an old woman, all alone in a storm, and without a single servant, ever since the government with its red tape and its oversell of democracy made it impossible to hire them, or even private nurses.
I knew my employer had oversold his holdings, but there would be no trouble in making up the five thousand head, as all our neighbors would gladly turn in cattle to fill the contract.
Granted that a busy reader may only glance at the Introduction to a paper before deciding to pass it by, it is important to make the trailer intriguing, without overselling - a delicate matter.
There was, he thought, such a thing as overselling, be it of product or idea.
They oversold us, so now they have to blame us for not living up to a set of expectations they created in the first place.
But as a testimonial to his regime, the Bill of Rights at least had the virtue of being completely typical of John Diefenbaker: it was a well-intentioned, inexplicably delayed piece of legislation, so oversold to the voters that The Bill of Rights 313 eventually most of the beneficial if limited influence it deserved was dissipated.
Utah when a young woman boarded the oversold bus carrying a plastic laundry basket stuffed with shoes and clothing.
Jonathan oversold all his stories, so it was hard to know if this one was truly special.
He had already oversold his self-fixed limit, having parted with four hundred and eleven thousand shares.
Tony had been oversold on the idea that Thull was a human clock, and had therefore talked too much about it, because talking was his weakness.
In each case, the skeptics at the time grumbled that these theories were being oversold and that the results were either wrong or obvious.
Genome-sequencing may have been oversold as the answer to human diseases, but it's very good basic science.
It was clear that Avery III and his blow-cut salesmen were overselling the vault.
He finally recognized it litestone was overselling, but possibly that was be-ause of his embarrassment at quitting his job so Tjrupfly.
It led Luet to the inescapable conclusion that the alarm that opened all the suspended animation chambers had not been an accident, that somehow Zdorab had managed to leave not one but two wake-up calls, and the Oversold had not found the second one.